Your recollected version of the headline is what many of us remember (me included) but that actual headline (I just looked it up) was even shorter (befitting the discussion here): Headless Body in Topless Bar (the verb understood). https://www.politico.com/media/story/2012/01/the-real-story-of-headless-body-in-topless-bar-as-argued-by-veterans-of-the-post-000201/